Skating on my old boots again

The second pair of new boots I bought is defective, the tongues have different lengths and it would need to be fixed, exchanged, or returned. I talked about all my options in my previous post, none convenient. I don't know what I'm gonna do. What become clear is that it doesn't make any sense to still break in these boots, because I would have to break them in again, when the tongue is replace or the whole boot is exchanged. I took them to the shop and they said they ask Riedell   what the options are, return, replace or repair.

Meanwhile, I'm back on my old boots....

I skated on my old boots only once after I returned the first pair of boots I bought, and not only I felt I had no support, but also the blade felt misaligned. Now... as I've refreshed my knowledge in aligning the blade on the boots with the defective tongues. I decided to give it a try and put the blade back on my own! I put in just the temporary screws so I could adjust the blade. I put in the new Riedell R-kit insole with arch support (as my old insole got damaged now by the technician bu griding it, with good intentions, of course). I thought to try the boots in the house and I couldn't muster the courage. I think, I thought, that if they are not gonna work out, at least I'll skate another day....

And off I went skating! The first feel was that the new insole are cramping my toes, they are thicker than my old insoles... As I started skating I wasn't hurting, just cold... Ok, whatever, I can live with that. I did need to adjust the left blade, twice, and the right blade I've tried but I felt I've made it worse so I reverted. I think I've figured it out.

I started to do my usual exercises, not those for softening the ankles, actually I avoided them. I did stroking forward and backward, edge presses, chasses and progresives on lobes, all the moves from Pre-Juv test, more 3-turns, brackets, more power pulls (this was the only thing it felt hard from the moves test). Then I've got courageous and did cross rolls, fell on the back ones and felt good, like I'm skating again! I haven't tried jumping, spinning didn't go too well. Twizzels didn't go at all. So not so good, not so bad either. I don't feel supported by the tongue, if it would be to go back to my old boots, I would have to reinforce the tongue. But I've got to skate another day!

And another day, that felt better.  I've decided to give it a try and rebuild the tongue of my old boots at a local shop recommended by a skating friend.